March Hatch-Along Thread- Come Hatch With Us!!!!!

[TweetyNPetey]

Now that is exciting!! Make sure you post pics!!

Yes! Please do!

 

[hokankai]

I am having to assist because, usually, they pip, and can't unzip. I am waiting many hours. I know they are weak because they are pointlessly banging their beak against the shell, over and over. My temp is constantly kept at 99.5*

How many hours is "many"? They can take up to 24 hours and usually take 8-12 hours before zipping. The fact that you know there are blood vessels in the membrane still tells me that you are going to assist way too soon. You should wait at least 24 hours after pipping to assist if absolutely necessary, unless there are obvious signs of distress.

Have you read this yet? https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching

 

[PugBug]

Good luck with the wyandottes!!

Maah!

I've missed talking to you!

 

[jhfamily5]

I am into the night of day 21 and have nothing. No pips, no cheeps and no rocking either. The eggs were all doing great when I went into lockdown day 18. I couldn't take it anymore and quickly candled two eggs this morning (my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance EX holds the temp and humidity super steady and I had no ext pips) and they are alive, but look more like day 17-18 and I KNOW they are at a full 21 days. I marked my calendar (and the calendar in my phone too) when I set them. There are 17 silkie eggs in there and I am going crazy! I thought silkies were notorious for hatching early but didn't dare hope for that...day 21 though? I want to see some fluffy butts! Please talk me down and tell me they should still be fine...

 

[PugBug]

I'm putting the eggs in my incubator into lockdown on Wednesday night. I'm even more worried about my easter eggers. I was concerned that "big daddy" makes big babies and the EE eggs are not big eggs. Well... I candled a couple of them this morning and they are looking pretty crowded in there! There isn't much space left at all & they still have 4+ days to go.

I have a broody hen! My black australorp, Jewels, decided she wants babies. AND of course she decided the that highest nestbox (about chest high) right next to the door was the best place to raise a family. Ugh. I tried to move her to a box on the floor of the coop (under their ramp so it is dark and quiet), but it's still too close to the communal waterer for her tastes. I think later today I'll move the waterer, and block off the area under the ramp, and then after dark tonight I'll try to move her again. She's sitting on fake eggs right now. If I can get her settled in the new spot I'll put some silkie eggs under her. Of course our BR and NH hens thought the new nest box under the ramp was AWESOME. They loved it right from the start. They're not broody, but I could see their wheels turning. I hear broodiness is contagious. LOL. Sorry girls... the luxury suite is for Jewels. If you want to have babies I'll hook you up.

Hopefully she will take to it! They can find the strangest places to lay- I went over to a friend's today to pick up his 2 pygmy nannies he was giving me. We went out to the barn, and low & behold there was one of his little bantam hens & 12 tiny chicks! He was telling me last night he hadn't seen her for about a wk & thought she'd been picked off by a hawk or something. Nope, she is alive & well! She had laid her eggs up under the elevated platform he built for the goats to sleep on. It's only about 4 in off the ground, I have no idea how she managed to get up under there, but she did and hatched all those babies out. He laid on the floor to look under there & discovered another little hen setting on eggs too!

 

[PugBug]

Welcome back...lol. COngrats on your hatches and

for your loses.

Brooks! Feels like I was gone forever, I have no idea what's going on with everyone LOL!

and dang if my tiny little sultan chick died this morning! It was doing so well, but never would eat of drink much. The little polish is eating & drinking enough for 3 chicks LOL

Oh and I did get more polish bantam eggs in today Yay! Tomorrow is day 21 for the wyandotte eggs, Fri is day 21 for the lemon cuckoo orp eggs. Oh yea and I ordered some bourbon red turkey eggs yesterday- so I guess I'll be in for the April hatch

 

[Friar_Tuck]

Well, two weeks old tomorrow, and starting to grow!

 

[PugBug]

So because my easter eggers/embryos seem to already be getting crowded in their small apartments... I decided to lock them down today (day 17), rather than tomorrow. I took them out of the cups, candled them, marked the aircells once last time and laid them on their sides in the best position for hatching. I'm hoping it will give the squished kiddos another day to get into position... & hopefully they do it sooner rather than later. I hope they don't get so cramped in there that they can't move.

I haven't increased the humidity yet... and I haven't put the barred rock eggs into lockdown yet. I'll continue to hand turn those ones (spin at an angle now? lol) for the next day with them standing up in their little cups. Tomorrow I'll candle them all 1 last time, mark their air cells and then lay them down in the 'bator, and add more water. The one BR egg that I checked this morning looked just fine. The BR eggs are bigger and the chicks look like they will have just the right amount of space/development by Saturday.

I REALLY want the EEs to hatch! Well, I want the BR eggs too... but I REALLY want the EEs.

sending out the hatch vibes your way!!!

 

[PugBug]

Happy to report external pipping on my first dewlap toulouse egg...in lockdown now! 10 little call ducks with internal pipping now too...expecting to see external pipping tomorrow!

Oh good!!! Take pics I wanna see!!!

 

[PugBug]

I did not know a double yolk egg would hatch. I would like to know how that turns out.

Not often, but I have known of a few ppl that did have double yolks hatch